So, Should I give up or keep going!?

He probably means : you need to break up your paragraphs so the chunks of text are not so huge. Stick to about 3-5 sentences per paragraph. Double space between paragraphs.

As far as font, choose one good one. Verdana is very popular, as is Arial. Usually about 10 or 12 point. Both are easy to read online. Some people choose a different font for headlines, which is fine. In fact, some Wordpress themes are designed with headlines of a different color and font.

About your site. I somehow ended on a page that asks me to sign up... it has a bulleted list of about 5 items, but no box to actually sign up and no active link to move anywhere. I also could not get back to your main site from that page. I had to re-enter the URL and start over.

You do need to focus on a smaller topic. Your site is more typical of what you will find on one of the major company sites. They have the staff to do all the work that is required on such a site - maintenance, content updates, keyword searches, marketing and promotion.

Having 100 keywords doesn't mean 100 topics. Each keyword represents a new keyword - for example, computer repair, fix computer, computer repairs, fixing computer, fixing computers, how to fix computer... all focus on one topic: computer repair. It's easy to find 100 keywords with only a few topics.

You need to do more keyword research to find what they call "long tail keywords". Those are keywords that consist of more than one or two words. For example, "how to fix my computer" is much more focused than computers or computer repairs. Think about what your keywords mean - how they can be interpreted.

Computer repairs could mean, bring it in and we'll fix it, rather than, how to fix your own. So you need to be very specific on word choices so they are more relevant to your offers.

If you're interested in technology, ie computer repairs, then I would reduce your content and focus to just that. Talk about what can go wrong, what certain problems mean - from that you will soon develop a much bigger list of keywords.

As far as quitting, you're much too early into the game to even think about quitting, unless you're beginning to think it's not for you. It took me several years before I even started making any sales, and then only $100 now and then. But I'm not the best person to talk about financial success online. I know about the benefits of writing and submitting articles, submitting your URL to the top directories, and choosing good keywords... but I'm not consistent or persistent in my efforts, and that is very important.

I began in 1998 when there was little online training available. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that it finally dawned on me what I needed to know. Prior to that, I was reading and trying to absorb absolutely everything, which wasn't necessary.

Right here on the forum, I was told:

Find one marketing method. Get it working, ie: making money or driving traffic, and then move on to another method. Don't scatter your energy. Focus, implement, continue learning, be persistent, and you will succeed... but it'll take more than a few weeks.

Hope this helps.

Best of success!

Sylvia

P.S. You don't have any keywords in your meta tags of your site. You do have the description, so I assume you know where to add some keywords. You only need about 10 in the meta tags. More will cause the search engines to think you are word spamming, and they will penalize you for it.

Do you have traffic coming to your website ?
Website without traffic is dead.

Hi Simtech,

You are welcome.

It looks like I might have misled you somewhat regarding how long it takes to start making money. For me, it was a few years because I didn't really know what I was doing and was scattering my efforts all over the place. This was very ineffective. Also, I didn't really do as much marketing as it felt like I was doing. For instance, last year, I went to Ezine Articles, which was my main marketing avenue, and counted how many articles I'd written in about a year. It was less than 100. That shocked me, because it felt more like 500.

Also, I was not consistent in my marketing. I'd do a big splurge for a week, then nothing much for a month - sometimes longer. That doesn't work. You have to be doing something every single day to market your business - whether it's to submit one article to 10 article directories, submit your link to site directories, or using the social media.

In the end, you want to have a good selection of marketing avenues that work for you. That's why I said, do one, see if it works, and then after a few weeks or a month, see if you are getting results. If not, make that a second priority and focus on another method. Of course, you can do 2-3 marketing avenues at a time - whatever your time allows - but you want to track the results (something I never did). If you don't, you won't know what's working and what isn't, which means you could be wasting a lot of time.

As a perfect example, I thought the traffic exchanges were a terrific idea. You join all these sites, put up a promotional page, and then visit those other sites to rack up points. Those points translate into how many times your site appears when everyone else is "surfing" the sites. After a year, I became extremely skeptical of this method and learned from places like the Warrior Forum just how useless it is. You can imagine how many hours I wasted clicked through the system viewing websites that did not interest me.

One method that I did fine extremely useful was to use one of the article distribution networks. I used submityourarticle.com which some successful Warriors use. You buy a yearly membership and submit your articles. The site then distributes them for you to hundreds of sites and groups. It took about 3 months to start seeing consistent results and making sales. So if article marketing is one of your options, you might want to join. Watch for posts here on article marketing. There are a lot of great tips from Warriors who are using this method of promotion.

As far as taking 2 years to make money - that was just me. Some people jump in and start making month in their first month - others are supporting themselves in 6 months to a year. But it's all in the marketing - something I was / am very weak in - yet that is the determining factor to success.

Become a great marketer for your chosen product.

I fully agree with you about writing for fiverr - it IS slave labor. I occasionally write for other people, but then I think, "Why am I putting my efforts into writing for other people to make money when I could be writing to promote my own business(es)?"

If you need money to keep you going, I would suggest looking for assignments that pay something of value - Don't fiverr people only pay $5 or something? There are other writing sites that will pay you more. Check around. I understand some people do well with Elance where you can look for and submit quotes on various writing jobs that are offered. Another one is Associated Content. I'm not sure how much they pay, but it seems to me someone has said it's pretty good - better than $5 at least.

While doing those assignments, set aside some time to write your own articles, too, and get them out. I use Ezine Articles, as do many Warriors. They are one of the top article sites for marketers, but their writing guidelines are a bit strict, ie: you can't put affiliate links in your articles or bio box, and you can't be blatantly promotional. You have to offer valuable, helpful content. Then you can put a simple call to action in your bio box. Some warriors submit to about 5 top article sites. You can find a list by running a search of the warrior forum. I used Searchwarp, Ezine Articles and a few others I can't recall right now.

Another way to benefit with article marketing is to search for other sites offering complementary products to what you are offering. Ask if they would be willing to publish your articles, provided you can have your site link included. The benefit here is that these are sites in businesses similar to yours, which means they are more relevant than a generic site. This means that the search engines will rate your link more highly.

You might even ask the owner if they'd be interested in some sort of joint venture. You're probably not in a position now to do a mailing of substance, but you could offer to write a report or mini- ebook for them to send out to their list. The sharing is: you offer the work for free that some owners just don't have time to do, and in turn, they distribute your book with your link inside.

The more of this type of marketing you do, the sooner you will begin to see profits.

Best of Success!

Sylvia

P.S.: You can have a site that covers a number of related products, but you don't want too many. It's tougher to focus your marketing and keyword choices when you have too many products. I tried doing a book site and added about 15 books on different topics. I was really confused about how to find the right keywords to market it, since there weren't too many specific keywords related to "books". I ended up with things like, "ebook website", "download ebook" and other equally useless phrases. I went with categories, like fitness books but I wasn't about to fill up a whole page with fitness books. There weren't that many good ones out there, to be honest. I wanted to make sure my site offered quality books. I ended up with business books, self help books, travel books and fitness books. It was much easier to handle marketing that smaller range. I'd write articles promoting each type of book. For instance, I'd do a fitness article offering helpful ways to build muscle and then link it to one of my fitness books. These were all affiliate books, by the way. So keep that in mind when deciding how to focus your site.